Subject: Re: corba or sockets?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 01 Nov 2000 17:25:36 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3182088336408296@naggum.net>
* Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad@ebi.ac.uk>
| XML or text/plain is just slower to parse than a binary datastream
| of which you know the layout.
This claim is not at all supported by the evidence. Parsing a
binary data stream that claims to be general and not just a dump of
bytes from memory, is just as expensive to parse as text/plain and
can quickly become _slower_ if you do it wrong and need a lot of
overhead to overcome the inherent problems of binary representation.
The arguments for binary datastreams are space and bandwidth, _not_
time to process.
#:Erik
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